Oral history interview with Angela Dahm , 2007 August 27.

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Oral history interview with Angela Dahm , 2007 August 27.

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Angela Dahm discusses working at the Elizabeth Kenny Institute as a nurse in the early 1950s; iron lungs and the Kenny treatment; hospital isolation procedures; nursing procedures used with polio patients; the arrival of a vaccine and eventual eradication of the disease; and post-polio syndrome.

Transcript: 9 leaves + 4 photographs, newspaper excerpt and project filesSound recording: 1 sound cassette

Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa State Historical Society

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Iowa Polio Stories Oral History Project.

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The State Library of Iowa hired Kate Scott to coordinate an oral history project to document the history and impact of polio in Iowa. Interviewees represented counties across Iowa and ranged in age from 55 to 96 and included medical personnel, family members and friends of the afflicted, and polio survivors. The project was carried out in conjunction with the State Library's Center for the Book All Iowa Reads selection for 2007, The Splendid Solution by Jeffrey Kluger. From the descr...

Dahm, Angela Rita Schlegel, b. 1929,

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Scott, Kate.

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Elizabeth Kenny Institute

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